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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 7 January 2013
Main ID:  NCT00394602
Date of registration: 30/10/2006
Primary sponsor: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Public title: Chemoradiation-Induced Nausea and Emesis: Quality of Life
Scientific title: Chemoradiation-Induced Nausea and Emesis: A Prospective Study to Assess Patient Preferences and Quality of Life
Date of first enrolment: April 2004
Target sample size: 200
Recruitment status: Recruiting
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00394602
Study type:  Observational
Study design:  Observational Model: Case Control, Time Perspective: Prospective  
Countries of recruitment
United States
Contacts
Name:   Charlotte C. Sun, MD
Address: 
Telephone: 713-745-4380
Email:
Affiliation: 
Name:   Charlotte C. Sun, MD
Address: 
Telephone:
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Affiliation:  M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Patients receiving 5 to 6-week course of chemoradiation for abdominal-pelvic tumors
(gastric cancers, gastro-esophageal (GE) junction, pancreatic, cervix, vulvar,
endometrial, or anal) using conventional fractionation [(180cGy-200cGy per day)]

2. Patients receiving concurrent abdominal-pelvic radiation and single agent or
combination of cisplatin, paclitaxel, CPT-11, oxaliplatin or 5-FU, capecitabine,
gemcitabine, or bevacizumab (Avastin).

3. Patients must be least 18 years of age

4. Controls must be individuals with no prior cancer diagnosis

5. Controls must be at least 18 years of age

6. Controls must be the caregivers of patients on this study

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Patients who do not have a diagnosis of cervix, endometrial, vulvar or anal cancer

2. Patients who are not scheduled to receive chemoradiation treatment

3. Patients who are not at least 18 years of age

4. Controls - individuals who have a prior diagnosis of cancer (with the exception of
non-melanoma skin cancer)

5. Controls - individuals who are not at least 18 years of age



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Anal Cancer
Cervical Cancer
Endometrial Cancer
Gastric Cancer
Pancreatic Cancer
Vulvar Cancer
Intervention(s)
Behavioral: Interview
Other: Questionnaire
Primary Outcome(s)
Longitudinal Quality of Life + Symptom Assessment Data [Time Frame: Survey(s) & Interveiw(s) at baseline (beginning of chemoradiation treatment), 3 weeks after treatment starts, the last day of treatment, and at the first follow-up appointment after chemoradiation treatment ends.]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
2003-0529
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Merck
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